Floods In Europe

Czech Republic

A man passes cottages on a flooded street after a heavy rain in Borovnice near Ceske Budejovice, in the Czech Republic, Aug. 7.

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Russia

These vehicles were swept away by rising waters into the Black Sea near the village of Shirokaya Balka, 500 miles south of Moscow, Aug. 9.

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Czech Republic

Two-thousand people were evacuated from flooded homes in southern Bohemia in the Czech Republic and in Ceske Budejovice, 95 miles south of the capital. Part of the town was under water.

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Austria

A car stands in the flooded city of Hadersdorf in the Austrian province of Lower Austria, some 43 miles northwest of Vienna, Aug. 9.

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Austria

Firefighter Josef Schrabauer, right, delivers bread and water to people who remained in their flooded houses in Hadersdorf, Aug. 9.

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Hungary

A fire vehicle makes its way forward after heavy rains flooded Halmaj and other villages in the region some 125 miles northeast of Budapest, Aug. 10.

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Russia

Vacationists pass by the covered bodies of victims of the flooding in the village of Shirokaya Balka on Aug. 9. The total death toll in Russia had risen to 58.

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Russia

After a wall of water flashed through her village near Novorossiisk, Yevdokia Aksyonova, 72, found that a huge tree smashed her house to bits. "How can I live now," she said, "I've lost everything I've saved during my life."

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Austria

A woman struggles to push her bike at a flooded camp site in Lofer, in the Austrian province of Salzburg, Aug. 12, after torrential rains hit the region.

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Germany

An elderly man is carried ashore after being rescued from his flooded home at Seiboldsdorf near the town of Traunstein, southern Germany, Aug. 12, after the Traun river flooded its banks.

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Russia

A man goes for a swim surrounded by smoke rising from heaps of debris burnt by cleanup crews on a beach in Shirokaya Balka, Aug. 12. Cleanup crews, working under sunny skies, scoured the normally crowded coastal beaches, searching for more bodies among the wreckage.

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Czech Republic

Residents wade through the flooded streets in the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization-protected town of Cesky Krumlov, the second most popular tourist destination in the Czech Republic after Prague.

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Czech Republic

Preparing sandbags to protect the famous Kampa island in Prague's Mala Strana (Lesser Town), known for its valuable architecture. The swollen Vltava river is the result of days of torrential rain.

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Austria

The main street between Krems and Vienna is flooded by the Danube river, Aug. 12, near Krems in the Austrian province of Lower Austria.

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Germany

Rescue workers steer their boat past a historic building at the flooded town of Passau, Bavaria, Aug. 13. Heavy rains and swelling rivers caused damage in the ancient part of the city.

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Germany

Tourists and locals look down a hill on the flooded town of Passau, Aug. 13.

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Germany

A woman falls in the water as she crosses a flooded street in the eastern town of Dresden Aug. 13. After a state of emergency was declared in six Bavarian districts and several parts of Saxony, authorities also declared an emergency in the historic eastern city of Dresden.

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Czech Republic

Volunteers carry sandbags through the historical Old Town Square of central Prague to reinforce flood protection Aug. 13. The Czech capital faces the worst flood in the city's history.

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Renewed At The Zoo

Two sea lions play in the pool at the Prague Zoo which partially opened to the public Saturday, Sept. 7, 2002. This was the first time the zoo had been opened since record floods in August led to the deaths of dozens of animals and forced the evacuation of hundreds of others.